Playing Dirty: Searching for the Soul of Golf in the Brazen New Era of Sportswashing

Greed and self-preservation have overtaken professional golf, with factions battling to buy and control its ecosystem without accounting for the cost and collateral damage of their ambitions. As the top level of golf threatens to tear itself in two, Golf Digest senior writer Joel Beall travels to Scotland, the birthplace of golf, to see if the soul of the sport is intact.

Here, far from the boardroom battles, ...